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I'm just a @pluralistic@mamot.fr re-toot account now:

"Vultures live off the disgusting, rotting crap that would otherwise pile up around us, breeding disease and emitting an unbearable stench. If plaintiff-side, no-win/no-fee lawyers are vultures, then junk fees, wage theft, and the million petty frauds they fight are the disgusting, rotting crap that vultures feed off of – and the harder we make it for our noble vulture lawyers, the more disgusting, rotting crap we have to live with, hence the unbearable stench that is all around us."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/#circle-of-life

An ethnography of enshittification https://www.worseonpurpose.com h/t @pluralistic@mamot.fr

"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene. Whereas once the case for the energy transition was driven by activists who warned people about the future consequences of inaction, Trump has summoned up a new army of people who are worried about the present consequences of inaction: such as not being able to drive your car, use your gas stove, or fertilize your crops. Trump has summoned up another army of people, who are worried about the politics of oil, the fact that oil leads to wars and can be mobilized as a weapon when it is withheld from your country."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene h/t @pluralistic@mamot.fr

"Shopping isn't politics. Politics are politics, and shopping is shopping." - @pluralistic@mamot.fr

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/

@bruces@mastodon.social Reading Holy Fire and am trying to figure out why Indianapolis is presented as this cultural mecca that has broad influence across the story world. (Indianapolis resident asking)

Looks like Meta is going through it now.. facebook, instagram and threads all erroring for me. #good

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND?!

BEJEWELED MY RIFLES THAT'S WHAT!

having spent the past 4 hours "vibe coding" with gemini and opus 4.6 trying to install a fucking font in Debian bookworm, good luck junior devs. These things are just liars.

RE: @kplx@mastodon.social

attacked.

Seeing a lot of takes from libs being like "seee you can vote out fascism." the difference between the US and Hungary is that in Hungary the opposition has promised to burn the fascists to the ground, roll back all of their policies, and subject them to prosecution domestically and internationally. In the US, the opposition is promising to send more fundraising emails and continue funding a genocide. Everything else will be declared impossible because of procedure.

@pleaseclap@techhub.social keep that fear alive... i just got a luke warm call from a ef global tours because i looked at their website too long.

Last year, rode the Hilly Hundred here in Indiana, it's a 2 day ride, ~50 miles each day, lot's of southern Indiana hills (steep and long). I ended up being terrified of the descents.

Just now watched a video of a mountain biker eat shit after going full send in Utah and feel justified in my fear.

i've gotten sucked into Threads and holy shit, that is a broken app. just perpetual straw man outrage circle jerks.

Old Man Gloom playing shows in PNW making me resent Indiana more than my usual base-level resentment.

RE: @mdn@mastodon.social

neat.

very appreciative that @catandgirl@socel.net exists on Mastodon, have been following since the old good internet. Glad they are on the new good internet.

Use ai tools! Generate thousands of lines of code! You have to now review and sign off on those lines of code and if you fuck up it’s your ass! The ai is blameless. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

Tech workers need unions now more than ever. Don’t be a human crumple zone.

Write and then delete a post today. (I did it three times before this one)

@pleaseclap@techhub.social like, every where seems way too quiet about this iran shit.... like one half mention above the fold on cnn.com, below the fold on nytimes.com... eerily quiet.

@pleaseclap@techhub.social we're going to the future loser, hop in.

OpenAI injecting ads in results and Copilot injecting ads into PRs. AI is on an enshittification speed run.

This is extremely on brand for Salesforce.

Customers for surveillance wage tools include "Intuit, Salesforce, Colgate-Palmolive, Amwell and Healthcare Services Group"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/#veena-dubal

Tech folks - this is an interesting bit of broad organizing around the recent layoffs - https://wwwrise.org/ (h/t @pluralistic@mamot.fr )

@todd@social.lol i would be super interested in this but i'm out of town for Gen Con this year.

one thing you should know about me is that if a Botch performance video comes up on youtube i can't not watch it:

https://youtu.be/NWaME5DjN18

Gin and Tacos with an excellent take on No Kings and it's likely lasting effect -- spoiler: I won't believe libs are "fighting mad" until I see something other than Vote Blue No Matter Who being shouted at me about Gavin Newsome (or insert other feckless warm mayo candidate). https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-protests-do-154333878/instant-access?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTI6OGE5NmEwYmMtNzAzYi00ZTQyLWIyZmMtOTNjNmIzNjZjYTAyIiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTU0MzMzODc4LCJwYXRyb25faWQiOjEyNTYzNzk1fQ.TnyuhLrn-vP_zn0I4veIihl3glS_w5fFX4AonO5PzDI&utm_source=post_link&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_id=6ba11354-1969-4d7f-8a9e-10704c10c0e4

Just finished the book Murderlands after hearing an interview with the author on 99% Invisible. It's a memoir that overlays a period of horrible environmental destruction and devastation with the serial killer epidemic from the 1960s through the 1980s.

The amount of toxic waste that was pumped into the air (lead, arsenic, etc etc) around these smelter compounds is mind blowing. Measured in tons per day. A lot of the North American smelters have been shut down. Where have we moved these negative externalities?

P.S. I'd skip the book because the author chose to spend a good deal of time graphically describing the crimes of Bundy, Rader, Ridgeway, Ramirez, et al and I really didn't need that in my brain.

Reading the AI summary of the likelihood of His Hero Is Gone re-issuing their catalog feels *really* wrong.

Have this full set as a treat: https://youtu.be/7Gw11P3LSAE

Remember when Apple added that stupid fucking U2 album to all of our devices without our consent?

Yeah, it's still on all of my shit and still is the default "play music" album when I send a play command to my device and it's lost the playback context from whatever I wanted to play.

Being accused of being maga or a republican on threads is fucking wild.

this was my pull quote from this essay too.

I helped some elementary school kids build a video game for their summative assignment in reading, nothing very complicated. Anyway that was 13 years ago and those kids are all out of high school now and I feel old as fuck.

excited to hear @pluralistic@mamot.fr on the Jon Stewart Weekly Show podcast.

https://youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw?si=qNseXxqoGhHQdOtu

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/artificial-lifeforms/

"Empathy then, for the nonhuman world – but not for human constructs."

I'm not 100% current with what's been happening in "Kurdistan" but I can't imagine this ending well if the Kurds participate in an Iranian civil war at the behest of the CIA.

Threw some data at an LLM to answer a question.

Mostly because I'm tired of being on the ideologic end of libs punching left.

Even if *EVERY* third party voter in 2024 had voted for Harris... she still would have lost the election because electoral college. She would narrowly edged out the popular vote, but on a state by state basis it only narrows her electoral college loss.

Feel free to smash this into the eyes of ye old shit libs crying about protest votes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rpHh0VrlmtYXP2btQOYDclICZEfbjMWb6xUDZ1rR_iM/edit?usp=sharing

got advertised these very nice looking puzzles on the other social internets and bought the wave one... owner sent me a nice note letting me know that production and printing are all done in Indiana. That's pretty rad.

https://www.finalpiecepuzzles.com/

HOLY SHIT INDIANAPOLIS DEADGUY SHOW!

https://skeletix.com/4497-stranger-attractions-317-shows-presents-d/

@elmiko@fosstodon.org @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Does he have to be sincere in order to make a good (and correct) point about how we as workers control how value surpluses are distributed in our relationship with work and our employers?

sending the 10/22 barrel out for some threading as a little treat.

Schneier on the current lack of student protest and activism being attributable to a real chilling effect from the administrations actions and threats.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html

@lemgandi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr

I wasn't clear in my communication... I meant with regards to government jobs he specifically called out make work jobs that resulted from full employment policy jobs guarantees in command economies (soviet union).

I understand that this was not the only class of bullshit jobs discussed, but it was definitely discussed in the book.